IT’S MY PARTY, I’LL CRY IF I WANT TO

IT’S MY PARTY, I’LL CRY IF I WANT TO “If somebody wants to change parties, they can do that. But that kind of instability is not good for governance of the country and the Senate,” said Pennsylvania Republican Senator Arlen Specter in 2001 when Senator Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party giving control of the Senate to the Democrats. A Republican believes that one should not kill babies and a Democrat believes that is okay to kill babies. A Republican believes that there should not be much gun control and thus make it easier for people to kill other people and a Democrat believes that there should be tough gun control laws to make it harder for people to kill other people. While the dichotomies of those diametrically opposing views are practically unfathomable, it is also astounding that a person could one day be a Republican and the next day become a Democrat. The party designations are not just labels, they are a philosophy. Senator Arlen Specter (R or D, Penn.) chose to leap from the Republican Party to the Democrat party, not because he had a change in heart in the philosophies he believed in but because he, according to the CHICAGO TRIBUNE, “acknowledged that his defection decision had far more to do with a calculated assessment of polling data—which showed him being trounced in a Pennsylvania Republican primary—than any major agreement on policy issues. Policy stances on issues did not come up during negotiations with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.” Negotiations?? Is that how one decides what side of the aisle to embrace? Go with the side that will give you an extra slice of pie? Of course the fact that President Obama, Senator Harry Reid and others have offered to campaign for Specter made his decision easy. Expect to see Blueberry stains around Specter’s mouth as the juice drips from his slice of gluttony for re-election. The people of Pennsylvania who have voted for Specter to be their Senator FIVE TIMES in his 29 year reign as a REPUBLICAN will not be tricked just because he changes his affiliation to DEMOCRAT. They have been betrayed and should be outraged. I hope they don’t vote for him as a Democrat or they will deserve blue stained teeth as well.